The PORTE-SAINT-JEAN
winemaker : Sylvain Dittière
Region: Loire Valley
City: Montreuil-Bellay
Grape varieties : chenin, sauvignon, cabernet franc
Surface Winery: 8,5 ha
Annual production: 20.000
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We're talking to you about his Winery
| In 2010, Sylvain Dittière (aka Tonton) set up as winemaker in Montreuil-Bellay, south of Saumur. Sylvain's white and red wines possess freshness, delicacy, suppleness, minerality, elegance and finesse. He's a welcoming, open-minded winemaker , very sure of the wines he wants to make. He set up in business at the age of 24 and already has a few years' apprenticeship under his belt, and not just anywhere. Winery Gauby, Cyril Fahl - Roussillon, Thierry Germain - Saumur and Saumur-Champigny, Château Yvonne - Saumur-Champigny, Marc Tempé - Alsace, and finally the legendary Clos Rougeard. He is, incidentally, the son-in-law of Françoise and the late Charly Foucault, since he lives with Pauline Foucault (sister of Antoine Foucault - Winery du Collier). Clearly, we're up to our necks in Saumur! In 2010, Sylvain leases 3 ha and buys grapes. The Winery now comprises 8.5 ha, with new parcels recently acquired that will soon produce a white (Chenin) and red (Cabernet Franc) cuvée. He works the plots meticulously and puts a lot of hard work into the vines. During the harvest, he's at the end of the line, carrying out the final sorting himself. The white plot gives rise to 2 cuvées: Saut-Mignon (Sauvignon) and La Perlée (normally Saumur, more often Vin de France), made with 60-90 year-old chenins. This cuvée is designed for laying down. The same is true of our red Saumur, Les Cormiers (Cabernet Franc aged around 60 years, on hard limestone and flint soils). | The ageing process is long, on average 24 months, in barrels housed in this incredible cellar. The fourth cuvée (La Porte Saint-Jean) is also a red in the Saumur-Champigny appellation. A 100% Cabernet Franc cuvée as well, but with younger vines on more clayey soils. The ageing is shorter, about 18 months. It is a fresher red wine, more delicate and elegant than the previous one, but not lacking in finesse and elegance. It should also be noted that there are still 2 new cuvées in the maturing process, certainly for sale in 2019 or 2020, coming from new plots acquired recently. Maturing is precisely one of Sylvain's trademarks and he is fortunate to benefit from a magnificent underground tuffeau cellar dating from the 16th century where the temperature is constant. Here the cellar is at the top and the barrels at the bottom, in the underground cellar, and the work is done by gravity during the entonnage. Constant temperature, long ageing without addition. At the bottling, Sylvain sulphites a little bit (about 30 mg of total SO2, a misery). For many tasters and for some years now, there is a little (a lot) of Clos Rougeard know-how. Charly can find some serenity up there, with the work done by his son Antoine and his son-in-law Sylvain. |
